[development] Drupal 6 release schedule

Jeff Eaton jeff at viapositiva.net
Wed Jan 31 21:34:40 UTC 2007


Dries Buytaert wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> I'm mailing to talk a bit more about the Drupal 6 release schedule. 
> Drupal 5 had a 3 month development period, followed by a 5 month code 
> freeze.  For Drupal 6, I'd like to propose a 4 month development 
> period, followed by a code freeze.  As with Drupal 5, the code freeze 
> will be guaranteed to be at least 2 months to give module authors time 
> to plan and catch up.  In practice, and depending on the state of 
> Drupal core at the code freeze date, it might take more than two 
> months to get things stable.
>
> Sounds good?
Is that 4 months starting today? Or 4 months starting 2 weeks ago? ;-) 
The morning of June 1st as an official 'code freeze' date would be easy 
to mark on a calendar...

--Jeff


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